[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless NIC Problem

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 11:05, Bishop, Cass wrote:
> I found some links though google where other people had Linksys cards that
> came up as Realtek in the cardctl ident.  The problem is that thier cards
> said rtl8180 and realtek has drivers for that card that they seemed to be
> able to make work according to the posts.

Can you provide links?

> 
> I tried the wlan-ng drivers and those will not work with my card since it is
> not an Intersil Prism chipset.
> 
> Why would what I get from cardctl ident cuase it not to work?  I can't
> figure out why it won't load the driver when it is compiled and aliased.
> I'll probably pick up another card to make this process easier but I'd still
> like to know if anyone has any info on this card.  Thanks for the feedback.
> 

Cardctl looks for certain things to identify the card.  When I installed
the wlan-ng drivers my Prism2 based card worked but my Orinoco card
stopped working.  I found that it thought it was a different card and
when I modified the pcmcia configs to identify the right card everything
was fine.  The cardctl does make mistakes.

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